Americanswers… on 5 Live! Why has Trump changed his mind on Ukraine?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump and Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte have made a statement at the White House to [INSERT DETAILS HERE]. We answer your questions on precisely what this means for the Ukraine war.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | It is back to normal for American answers this week, which means that Anthony and I were with |
| 0:08.6 | Matt Chorley for our live edition of the episode. So many stories going on as well. And we covered |
| 0:14.6 | quite a range. The fate of the comedian Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship was at one end of that range. We also talked about Donald Trump |
| 0:23.5 | joining the Chelsea football team on the podium for the Club World Cup final and a little bit |
| 0:30.4 | about Canada as well. Plus this very important announcement that Donald Trump and the NATO Secretary General Mark |
| 0:39.1 | Ruta have been making about weapons to Ukraine. |
| 0:42.9 | So in a nutshell, we're going to make top of the line weapons and they'll be sent to NATO. |
| 0:49.4 | NATO may choose to have certain of them sent to other countries where we can get a little |
| 0:53.5 | additional speed where the country will release something and be mostly in the form of a replacement. |
| 1:00.2 | So we recorded the episode just before that announcement, but we were talking about exactly |
| 1:04.4 | those things. So all of it coming up, welcome to America Answers on Five Live. |
| 1:11.9 | AmeriCast. AmeriCouncers on Five Live. AmeriCast. |
| 1:12.8 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 1:15.2 | You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. |
| 1:17.9 | You're gambling with World War III. |
| 1:20.2 | President Trump's message is very simple. |
| 1:22.2 | We are done being taken advantage of. |
| 1:24.0 | Mr. President, in the name of our God, have mercy upon the people. We're scared now. |
| 1:29.6 | Are you supportive of these onesies? I'm supportive of vaccines. |
| 1:33.1 | What is happening? Like, this is not America. This is a terrible nightmare. This is what victory feels like. |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah. |
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